By Wohlgemuth                                          H.B. No. 507
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the assessment of court costs for certain offenses to
 1-3     finance child health and safety programs in municipalities.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Article 102.014(c), Code of Criminal Procedure,
 1-6     is amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (c)  A person convicted of an offense under Subtitle C, Title
 1-8     7, Transportation Code, when the offense occurs within a school
 1-9     crossing zone as defined by Section 541.302 of that code, shall pay
1-10     as court costs $25 in addition to other taxable court costs.  A
1-11     person convicted of an offense under Section 545.066,
1-12     Transportation Code, shall pay as court costs $25 in addition to
1-13     other taxable court costs.  The additional court costs under this
1-14     subsection shall be collected in the same manner that other fines
1-15     and taxable court costs in the case are collected and shall be
1-16     assessed only in a municipality [with a population of 400,000 or
1-17     more].
1-18           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-19     to the assessment of court costs for a conviction, as determined
1-20     under Article 102.014(e), Code of Criminal Procedure, that takes
1-21     place on or after the effective date of this Act, without regard to
1-22     whether the behavior that is the basis for the conviction takes
1-23     place before, on, or after that date.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-5     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-6     passage, and it is so enacted.